By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

Aileen Canon, a US Federal District Judge handling the Trump classified document indictment case, has dismissed the case, saying that Special Counsel Jack Smith is not authorised to conduct the prosecution.

This is coming amidst the frenzy that followed the shooting of former president Donald Trump during his rally on Saturday, July 13.

According to Cannon in a ruling on Monday, the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith violated the US Constitution.

The ruling by Cannon, a judge Trump appointed in 2020, which is coming on the day of the Republican National Convention, clears away one of the major legal hurdles facing Trump.

According to CNN, many legal experts had viewed the classified documents case as the strongest one of the four cases that were pending against the former president.

Recall that Smith had charged Trump in 2023 with taking classified documents from the White House and resisting the government’s attempts to retrieve the materials, to which the former President pleaded not guilty.

Trump is also facing a state-level election subversion case in Georgia and was recently convicted of state crimes in New York for his role in a hush money payment scheme before the 2016 election.

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